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Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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Re: Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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Post by cozzyd »

transcriptase wrote: post #45
DecentShoes wrote: post #23

The best marketing campaign for Linux, is Windows 11.

The best marketing campaign for Windows is finally deciding on a distro only to be presented with a bunch of bullshit options (gnome, cinnamon, xfe, kde, mate, etc) the average person is expected to somehow understand the difference between or care about if they did. And no, someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing is not going to feel comfortable picking at random. Then the 95% odds that trying to dual boot witho…

The solution to dual boot is easy.... Nuke windows.

Re: Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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Post by shostack »

diego_sandoval wrote: post #19

What are you supposed to do if you have no Internet connectivity? You basically have a brick on your hands until you can connect it to the Internet? That's ridiculous.

You make them less money if you are not online so why should they care?

Re: Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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Post by droopyEyelids »

eska wrote: post #86
MarkusWandel wrote: post #37

Oh, another M$ account creation trick. When they discontinued Skype they said you could just log into Teams with your Skype credentials. Not so! That just forces you to enter an email address (that's not already associated with a M$ account) and guess what.. now you have ANOTHER M$ account. After this the Skype credentials are invalidated.

Nvidia does the same thing for their geforce experience tool. For a tool that shouldn’t require an account. Bait and switch.

Heres a little life saver that fit my use case.

https://github.com/ElPumpo/TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker

Re: Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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Post by jemmyw »

How do you provision a Windows machine that isn't tied to a person? I've been using the bypass way for laptops used by sports clubs.

I'd like to switch to using Linux but I haven't been able to overcome some packaging and performance issues yet.

Re: Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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Post by SunlitCat »

transcriptase wrote: post #45
DecentShoes wrote: post #23

The best marketing campaign for Linux, is Windows 11.

The best marketing campaign for Windows is finally deciding on a distro only to be presented with a bunch of bullshit options (gnome, cinnamon, xfe, kde, mate, etc) the average person is expected to somehow understand the difference between or care about if they did. And no, someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing is not going to feel comfortable picking at random. Then the 95% odds that trying to dual boot witho…

Well my Linux journey was even more adventurous then this.

First time I tried Linux was around late 90s. The included driver for my ati on board gpu did create some artifacts and it was suggested to use the default svga one.

The second time was in the early 2000s. There I was playing around with wine until it crashed one day and wiped my whole hard drive (sadly this was before I had a cd writing device, so lots of data gone :().

The third time, I can't really remember, but I wasn't really amazed (must be late 2000s).

The fourth time (must be around 2010-ish, I dunno), I finally made it for a few years after getting a 64 bit computer with more then 4 GB of RAM. Was using Windows XP (32 bit) and decided that instead of using Windows 7, I might try Ubuntu. Worked well, until it didn't. For some reason, Linux was having problems with the chipset on my mainboard (a nvidia one) and the dvd drive wasn't working. There were regular patches for the kernel (which didn't get included in the kernel for some reason, so I had to compile my own kernel). When that stopped working, I put my dvd drive into a Windows machine and it started working again (even on the linux machine) until it stopped working again.

That was when I switched to Windows 7 (64 bit) and I am now on Windows 10, sadly with a HTC Vive Pro 2 headset which seems to be unsupported on Linux. :(

Re: Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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Post by a2128 »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #57
tapoxi wrote: post #26

I have a recent (2024) Gigabyte AMD motherboard and Windows 11 refuses to recognize the Ethernet NIC or onboard wifi. I can't load the drivers during setup either because they're .exe installers and it wants .inf files or something. I got mad and installed Fedora Kinoite, which somehow just worked out of the box. My games all worked too. I've been mulling over installing a Windows partition for the inevitable game wi…

At this point it’s mainly my Quest 2 that’s keeping me from keeping my tower booted into Linux most of the time.

You can use ALVR to stream SteamVR games to your Quest 2. Some people use another app called Envision. There's a bunch of information here https://lvra.gitlab.io/

Re: Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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Post by adham-omran »

The last 3 times I installed Windows 11 _and_ used an account were a nightmare as for some reason, Microsoft would disable my account for logging in during an install... I avoid Windows like the plague but it's the only place where I can use my audio virtual instruments (No audio production in VMs and I don't own Apple hardware and it'd be ironic for the Windows setup to push me to get an Apple device...)

Re: Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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Post by zamalek »

tapoxi wrote: post #26

I have a recent (2024) Gigabyte AMD motherboard and Windows 11 refuses to recognize the Ethernet NIC or onboard wifi. I can't load the drivers during setup either because they're .exe installers and it wants .inf files or something. I got mad and installed Fedora Kinoite, which somehow just worked out of the box. My games all worked too. I've been mulling over installing a Windows partition for the inevitable game wi…

Battlefield 1 (I think) worked roughly two years ago, which is when I last played it. I think it was Lutris is that got it rolling for me. Not to mention the usual SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windows,x11 that us required for most anticheats. Give it a try IMO.

I check ProtonDB support prior to purchasing games, and I very rarely have to ignore a game.

Edit: just checked and, wow, Linux support has been explicitly disabled.

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